hinder

An example of to hinder is to hold someone's arm to keep them from going through a door.

hinder

transitive verb

to keep back; restrain; get in the way of; prevent; stop

to make difficult for; thwart; impede; frustrate

Origin of hinder

Middle English hindren ; from Old English hindrian, literally , to keep or hold back (akin to German hindern) ; from base of hinder

intransitive verb

to delay action; be a hindrance

adjective

Now Rare hind; rear; posterior

Origin of hinder

Middle English hindre ; from Old English adv. hinder, back, behind (akin to German preposition hinter, behind) ; from uncertain or unknown; perhaps base of he (see he) + comparative suffix -der, akin to Classical Greek -tero-, Sanskrit -tara-: the word is now felt as comparative of hind

hinder

verb

hin·dered, hin·der·ing, hin·ders

verb

, transitive

To obstruct or delay the progress of: a snowfall hindered the mountain climbers; lack of funds that hindered research.

verb

, intransitive

To interfere with action or progress.

Origin of hinder

Middle English hindren, from Old English hindrian; see ko- in Indo-European roots.

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O you who believe, surely many of the doctors of law and the monks eat away the property of men falsely, and hinder (them) from Allah's way. And those who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in Allah's way -- announce to them a painful chastisement, On the day when it will be heated in the Fire of hell, then their foreheads and their sides and their backs will be branded with it: This is what you hoarded up for yourselves, so taste what you used to hoard.